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Valorisation of by-products of the sugar industry for the production of bioplastics
- Project Leader
- Neureiter Markus, Project Leader
- Duration:
- 01.03.2016-31.05.2019
- Programme:
- Produktion der Zukunft - Kooperative F&E-Projekte - Industrielle Forschung
- Type of Research
- Applied Research
- Project partners
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AGRANA Research & Innovation Center GmbH, Josef-Reither-Strasse 21-23, 3430 Tulln, Austria.
Contact person: Markus Omann;
Function of the Project Partner: Partner -
Bioenergy 2020+ GmbH , Inffeldgasse 21b, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Contact person: Bernhard Drosg;
Function of the Project Partner: Partner -
Graz University of Technology, Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials, Stremayrgasse 9, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Contact person: Franz Stelzer;
Function of the Project Partner: Partner -
IM Polymer GmbH, Peter Tunner Straße 19, 8700 Leoben, Austria.
Contact person: Markus Kainer;
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
- Staff
- Frühauf Sabine, Project Staff
- Haas Cornelia, Project Staff (bis 31.12.2017)
- Schmid Maximilian, Project Staff (bis 31.10.2020)
- BOKU Research Units
- Institute for Environmental Biotechnology
- Funded by
- Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Sensengasse 1, 1090 Wien, Austria
- AGRANA Research & Innovation Center GmbH, Josef-Reither-Strasse 21-23, 3430 Tulln, Austria
- Abstract
- The European sugar industry is facing challenging times as the protecting quota management is coming to an end in September 2017. In order to stay competitive, the corporative actors have to move towards more innovative business models.
In the project ValorPlast, the valorisation of accruing but underutilized industrial by-products (desugared molasses and sugar beet pulp) is envisaged.
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) were identified as the optimal product from the two by-product streams. Due to their properties, these bio-based and biodegradable polymers are a promising material with possible applications in the packaging sector, as disposable consumer items and for medical-technology products. They are currently limited by their price, since their production is based on the fermentation of refined sugars. The utilization of sugar-industry by-products for PHA-production is expected to have mutual benefits: increasing the value creation of the by-products and reducing the price of the product PHA.
In the project, microbial strains are screened for an optimal utilization of nutrients and the fermentations are optimized for high volumetric productivities. Besides the concomitant PHA-analytics, analysing fermentation process and physico-chemical polymer characteristics, test specimens will be produced from the polymers. These test specimens are used for analysing the properties relevant for the polymer processing and defining possible fields of application.
The process development is rounded off by a holistic process evaluation, integrating the technical results into an economic feasibility study.
- Keywords
- Microbiology; Environmental biotechnology; Fermentation; Industrial biotechnology;
- biobased and biodegradable plastics; microbial bioprocesses; poly(hydroxyalkanoate); valorization of industrial by-products; sugar industry;
- Publications
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** Schmid, MT; Sykacek, E; O'Connor, K; Omann, M; Mundigler, N; Neureiter, M Pilot scale production and evaluation of mechanical and thermal properties of P(3HB) from Bacillus megaterium cultivated on desugarized sugar beet molasses.
J APPL POLYM SCI. 2022; 139(3), e51503 WoS FullText FullText_BOKU -
** Schmid, M; Raschbauer, M; Song, H; Bauer, C; Neureiter, M Effects of nutrient and oxygen limitation, salinity and type of salt on the accumulation of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) in Bacillus megaterium uyuni S29 with sucrose as a carbon source.
NEW BIOTECHNOL. 2021; 61: 137-144.
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** Schmid, MT; Song, H; Raschbauer, M; Emerstorfer, F; Omann, M; Stelzer, F; Neureiter, M Utilization of desugarized sugar beet molasses for the production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) by halophilic Bacillus megaterium uyuni S29.
PROCESS BIOCHEM, 86, 9-15; ISSN 1359-5113 WoS FullText FullText_BOKU -
Schmid, M; Kacanski, M; Neureiter, M (2019): Investigation of parameters influencing biomass and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) formation of Bacillus megaterium uyuni. [Poster]
In: C.A.R.M.E.N. e.V., ESBP 2019 Straubing. 10th European Symposium on Biopolymers
[10th European Symposium on Biopolymers ESBP 2019, Straubing, Germany, 25.09.2019 - 27.09.2019] -
Schmid, M; Kacanski, M; Omann, M; Emerstorfer, F; Drosg, B; Stelzer, F; Neureiter, M (2019): Utilization of by-products from sugar beet processing for the production of poly(hydroxyalkanoates).
In: C.A.R.M.E.N. e.V., ESBP 2019 Straubing. 10th European Symposium on Biopolymers
[10th European Symposium on Biopolymers ESBP 2019, Straubing, Germany, 25.09.2019 - 27.09.2019] -
Schmid, M; Song, H; Kacanski, M; Neureiter, M (2018): Influence of potassium concentration on the growth and PHB formation behavior of Bacillus megaterium uyuni S29 CECT 7922. [Poster]
In: Stevens, C; Soetaert, W; Tavernier, P; Vandamme, E; Meers, E, 14th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefinerie
[14th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries, Ghent, Belgium, 30.05.2018 - 01.06.2018] -
Kacanski, M; Schmid, M; Neureiter, M (2017): Utilisation of pressed sugar beet pulp for the production of bioplastics. [Poster]
In: Stevens, C; Soetaert, W; Tavernier, P; Vandamme, E; Dobrowolski, A; Kita, A; Rymowicz, W (Eds.), 13th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries
[13th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries RRB-13 2017, Wroclaw, Poland, 07.06.2017 - 09.06.2017] -
Kacanski, M; Schmid, M; Neureiter, M (2017): Production of mcl-PHA from acidified pressed sugar beet pulp. [Poster]
In: INSA Toulouse (Ed.), ESBP 2017 - 9th European Symposium on Biopolymers
[9th European Symposium on Biopolymers ESBP 2017, Toulouse, France, 05.07.2017 - 07.07.2017] -
Schmid, M; Raschbauer, M; Kacanski, M; Neureiter, M (2017): Influence of nitrogen-, phosphorous- and oxygenlimitation on polyhydroxyalkanoate production in Bacillus megaterium. [Poster]
In: INSA Toulouse (Ed.), ESBP 2017 - 9th European Symposium on Biopolymers
[9th European Symposium on Biopolymers ESBP 2017, Toulouse, France, 05.07.2017 - 07.07.2017] -
Schmid, M; Raschbauer, M; Kacanski, M; Neureiter, M (2017): Usage of an industrial by-product stream for the production of polyhadroxyalkanoates. [Poster]
In: Stevens, C; Soetaert, W; Tavernier, P; Vandamme, E; Dobrowolski, A; Kita, A; Rymowicz, W (Eds.), 13th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries
[13th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries RRB-13 2017, Wroclaw, Poland, 07.06.2017 - 09.06.2017] -
Schmid, M; Schlögl, P; Haas, C; Neureiter, M (2016): Production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from industrial waste streams with halophilic organisms. [Poster]
In: Spanish Society of Biotechnology (SEBIOT) and Spanish Research Council (CSIC), ISPB 2016: 15th International Symposium on Biopolymers, Madrid, Spain
[15th International Symposium on Biopolymers (ISPB 2016), Madrid, Spain, 26.09.2016 - 29.09.2016]
- Vorträge
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Neureiter, M (2020): Production of polyhydroxyalkanoates in pilot scale.
European Biotechnology Congress 2020, SEP 24-26, 2020, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC; online -
Kacanski, M; Schmid, M; Neureiter, M (2017): Acidified pressed sugar beet pulp as substrate for bioplastics production. [Poster]
Austrian Biorefining Stakeholder Workshop (IEA Bioenergy Task 42), OCT 23, 2017, Vienna, AUSTRIA -
Neureiter, M (2017): Valorization of by-products and wastes via the carboxylate platform within the projects ValorPlast and VOLATILE.
Austrian Biorefining Stakeholder Workshop (IEA Bioenergy Task 42), OCT 23, 2017, Vienna, AUSTRIA -
Schmid, M; Song, H; Kacanski, M; Neureiter, M (2017): Microbial production of bioplastics from sugar-industry byproducts.
Austrian Biorefining Stakeholder Workshop (IEA Bioenergy Task 42), OCT 23, 2017, Vienna, AUSTRIA